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Archive for October, 2006
October 31, 2006 at 6:49 pm · Filed under random
HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYBODY!
October 30, 2006 at 3:23 pm · Filed under bloggers, Library 2.0, rants
Well all I can say is that it is a good thing Monterey is such a nice vacation spot, because the IL2006 was an utter waste of time. The sessions I was anxiously anticipating turned out to be incredibly lame. I went to IL2006 hoping to learn something, anything. I expected a group called “Internet Librarians” would have been innovating and creating, however that is not the case and I left feeling VERY let down. It is disappointing when you feel like you know more about the topic that the presenter of said topic. You know you are in trouble when a presentation entitled “RSS and Javascript Cookbook” starts out with the presenters telling you they know nothing about Javascript and call themselves the supposedly cute term “light coders” and proceed to show you online tools that give you crappy cut and paste code to put in your web pages. Seriously???
Sad, sad, sad. It was so bad that as I was at the conference I thought I couldn’t be the only person with such a un-positive response, and so I checked many of the bloggers who I knew would be in attendance, and after reading their rave reviews I have decided to stop subscribing to their blogs. Seriously??? What a waste of my time… I could have learned just as much doing a search on Blinklist for Library 2.0, or really any topic that was given at the conference. Again, truly, sad…
October 20, 2006 at 10:25 am · Filed under top five
Have you ever seen the movie High Fidelity? If you have, you may remember the characters sitting around coming up with various Top Five lists. Since I think this is fun to do I thought I would make it an every Friday type of thing here at Opacula. So, to kick it off I present to you the top five movies any “MAN” should have on his movie shelf. I give you the
TOP FIVE - Man Movies :
1. Fight Club
You DO NOT talk about Fight Club… but man what a great movie. I have watched this movie over and over and still love it.
2. Braveheart
One of the few movies I have ever seen more than five times when it was in the theaters. Beautiful cinematography, fun story (however historically inaccurate), and despite Mel’s love of torture scenes, very moving when he yells “FREEEEEEDOOOOOM!”.
3. Swingers
This one is up hear mainly because it was a undergrad movie for me, and I can’t tell you how easily “You’re Money” slipped into the college vernacular. Plus it had a very cute “swing-ette” version of “
Rollergirl” in it…enough said.
4. Old School
This makes back to back appearances on the list for
Vince Vaughn who also gets extra points for having been born in my hometown! But really Old School is just pure fun from start to finish… “Look at me. Look at me! Do I look happy?”
5. Wedding Crahsers
OH MY LORD is this movie funny. Both Vince and
Owen Wilson are so spot on perfect and dead funny that this movie was an instant add to the shelf.
Honorable Mentions:
October 18, 2006 at 3:30 pm · Filed under random
Honestly, I have been intending to make my own theme for WP. As such I haven’t found the time to do that yet. I do like the Qwilm and Not So Fresh themes though… One of these days I will get to this…
October 18, 2006 at 3:26 pm · Filed under Library 2.0, extensions
…I look at the calendar and realize it has been nine days since my last entry. Ooops! So in the interim I have upgraded to Firefox 2.0 and so far so good. Some of my favorite extensions (can you say Tab Mix Plus!) don’t work with RC3 yet, but I am hoping that by general release it should all be smooth. I will say thank goodness Firebug works or I would not have tried the RCs.
Not a lot to report in the way of Library stuff other than I have been giving Zotero a spin. So far pretty good, it reminds me a lot of Scrapbook but with a few nice addons like search folders which is pretty cool!
Oh, and a big thanks to noksagt for my first comment! Woot!
October 18, 2006 at 3:25 pm · Filed under rants
Why is IE7 an automatic update? I swear if IE7 is as much of a pain in the ass as IE6 for designs…
**breath deep, just let it go, remember Firefox is steadily increasing user share**
October 9, 2006 at 2:06 pm · Filed under Library 2.0, extensions
It looks as if Zotero is now out in public beta. It will be interesting to see how this goes over, and if it gets readily used. From the looks of it this could be an excellent extension for replacing expensive research aids like EndNote. I am unwilling to upgrade my Firefox untill the full 2.0 release is out and as such I will wait and see how Zotero does. If it deliveres as promised I am thinking Libraries should install this and a their own LibX Edition on all of their in house computers.
October 9, 2006 at 1:59 pm · Filed under Library 2.0
I will be heading to Internet Librarian 2006 and I have to say I am looking forward to many of the presentations scheduled. It will also be nice to be back in California again, if for no other reason than to get some GOOD sushi again! I have a sneaking suspicion that many of presentations will again be vendor bashing to some small extent, but at least this time I believe I can blend into the crowd.
October 5, 2006 at 9:41 am · Filed under quotes
“When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
—Sinclair Lewis.
October 3, 2006 at 6:13 pm · Filed under bloggers, Library 2.0, rants
How great is this!?
This is what I feel like yelling many times when I read some of the various and sundry blog entries in the “Library 2.0″ world. Seriously, it seems like many of those who work in the ivory towers of academia or worse yet, the protected feifdoms of public libraries, have never had a real job in corporate America. Now obviously, I do not know every single blogger’s life story but I bet I could easily guess and frankly it drives me a little bonkers… Just the very notion that there is a “Library 2.0″, ah, hello — Get over yourselves! “Library 2.0″, heh, I am not sure where to really begin the mockery…
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